May the odds be in your favor: Relatedness and size interact in shaping poison frog tadpole cannibal aggression
Published Date: 3/28/2022
Source: phys.org
Cannibalism is common throughout the animal kingdom. It can be strange to think about real life "battle-royales" playing out in nature such that many individuals enter and only a few emerge victorious, but in the tropics we observe exactly that. According to researchers at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, in addition to size difference, relatedness affects whether or not a poison frog tadpole is more likely to be eaten.